Being a social
and musical history ( of sorts ) of commercial Rock festivals of the United
Kingdom , from 1960 to 2000- and of the Free Festivals and related traveller
scene of the United Kingdom , from 1965-2000.

Please Contact
us
regarding any malfunctions such as bad links, missing images etc and we will
try to fix them asap- please let us know the page you are viewing - it makes
it much easier...:-)

This is a conservative
free zone .........

"Although
it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most
stupid people are conservative."
John Stuart Mill

We
couldn't do this without you

....
so thanks ..... BUT ....

We
build this site through YOUR contributions and thus it is dedicated to
all the lovely people who have donated their memories, documents,photos
and recordings to us over the past sixteen years.

However, probably due to social media, contributions are drying up. Because of this ( and old age creeping up on me )I'm now only updating every few months instead of weekly .

If you want this site to be updated more regularly and you are sitting on photos or have memories to contribute, think, if you post them on Facebook, why not just email us a copy as well ? Then anyone can see the info at a central point, and not just those who are in the group you are contributing to.

We want to keep this site going, but it will fade away if nothing is donated by the readers .

The
site is non profit making and will never accept paying adverts both as
a tribute to your generosity and also because we still believe in the
old hippie/digger ethos that giving something for free is a reward in
itself !

There
are too many of you to mention here, but we couldn't have done it without
you, and for your efforts, many, many thanks .......

Festival
related products and projects -(community service,
we don't get paid for these)

These
folks are looking for info to use in films , websites or books, contact
them if you can help.

Our
old friend Garry Marsh is writing a book on the Hollywood festival
and wants
MORE info

East
Anglian Fairs web site (we now have some info on these fairs on
our site as well......)

Andy
Roberts fascinating new book Albion
Dreaming has much information about free
festivals of the 70s and 80s . Essential reading for all devotees
of the countercultural scene of the past 40 or so years . ! Read a
review here

"Andy
Roberts (author of Albion Dreaming) is now writing a book specifically
about psychedelics and free festivals. He would welcome any information
on this topic such as info on dealing psychedelics at festivals, prices,
types available, methods of smuggling psychedelics in, photos of dealers'
signs and basically anything related to psychedelics and free festivals.
All contributors will be credited and no compromising information
will be revealed! Please contact
Andy

We all know
how we suffered at festivals from that vile UK weather back in the 60s and
70s- relive it all again by viewing.....

We always want more information
on ANY UK festivals, but we are especially seeking any information about
the following festivals.

1960s

Uxbridge
Blues Festival 65-66

Longleat
Pop 1962-64- any other Longleat festivals

Camden
fringe 68- 69

Love
In Festival 1967

Kent
Pop Festival 1967

Reading
1967

Hastings
1967

Midsummer
Nights Dream 1968

Croydon
Free Festival Beckenham,Bromley Aug 16th 1969

Midsummer
Pop Festival Cambridge June 11th 1969

1970s

Medicine
Ball Caravan Canterbury 1970

Meigan
Faire 74-76.79

ANY
free festivals 1967-90

Canterbury
1970

Cambridge
free festivals

Crystal
Palace 1977 and 1980

The
Who Wembley 1979

Reading
1976-80

Inverness
1970

Baston
Lincoln 1970

Anti Nazi
League /RAR outdoor concerts

1980s
and 1990s

Monsters
of Rock Donington 1980-90

Heavy
Metal Holocaust 1981

Rock
On The Tyne 1981

Reading
1980-90

Glastonbury
Festival 1980-90

Treworgey
Tree Fayre

Nostell
Priory 1983- Nospop 83

Elephant
Fayre lineups 84-85,photos of the Fall and other bands

Loch
Lomond 1980

Deep
Purple Knebworth 1985

Queen
Knebworth 1986

Knebworth
1990

Gateshead
Stadium 1982

Milton
Keynes Bowl concerts 1980s

Womad
at Reading up to 1990

Any
free festivals of the 80s

Photos,
info on traveller camps and vehicles

and
we welcome contributions about any benefits and one day events not
currently listed apart from folk and jazz festivals, we just don't
have the time to cover them .

Please
feel free to Contact
us.We
try to reply to all messages, but sometimes it takes a while. Usually we wait
until we have enough new material to warrant a page upgrade and we often give
priority to establishing new pages on festivals we haven't covered so far
over small updates , so posts may take a few months to emerge on the page
. We'll try and let you know when your stuff is added.....

Requests
to BUY tapes or CD's of shows will NOT be answered , neither will enquiries
regarding the prices that memorabilia will fetch on the market . We also do
NOT buy memorabilia and we won't carry paid adverts.

About the Archive. When
we started this site 20 years ago we just intended to document a few festivals
we had attended in the late 60s and early 70s, but its taken over our lives
and become much more than that. In the past three years the site has expanded
greatly and now covers a 30 year time span - which may eventually go to 40 !

This
is NOT a nostalgia site! Yes, we celebrate the past, but this is as much a sociological
project as it is a musical odyssey. The Archive aims to eventually provide as
much information as possible about all aspects of the major UK festivals, Free
festivals and outdoor concerts from 1960 to 1990 and scrutinise them from sociological
and musical perspectives . Festivals are not divorced from society and they
usually mirror changes in our general culture as well as in musical tastes.
As music fans we also provide information on many of the groups who performed
at the festivals, well , we do have to have some fun !

So,
that is our mission. BUT , only way that this can happen is if we get
help from those of you who have memories, articles , photos and recordings
of the events, so please - Contact
us- before you snuff it !

To
prove that we are not completely stuck in a time warp, in addition to the older
stuff, the site also features sections about more modern festivals
, such as Womadelaide and has some archival
information about tours of Australiaby various artists, mostly in the folk, blues and jazz arena. We
also have provided many photos of featured artists
and links to other sites where appropriate.

Hope
you enjoyed the site and that you will visitThe Archiveagain
sometime soon!

This site is non profit making, its a site for die-hard
fans- and run as a source of information for those interested in Rock music of
the past.We are completely against the sale of bootlegged artefacts, especially
musical ones.We attempt to obtain permission to use articles and photos wherever
possible, but on occasions, due to the age and obscure origin of some items, we
have not been able to ascertain the owner of the copyright .It is possible that
occasionally we are sent material from sources that assert that they own the copyright
of material, but their claims are spurious - If you see any material on the site
that you believe you own the copyright of -please send us an e-mail with proof
that you have ownership of the image and we will remove the offending item from
the site immediately.Contact
us